2-Letter Words Starting with P

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Actions taken to increase sales

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

""Pl. pronephroi (-roi) or pronephra (-r ) A kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey.""

Black Hills beasts

Articulates

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

Proofroom

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Propagule

Sell proper pants (those supporting choppers?)

Propellor

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

Correct wear for the stage (wordplay)

Correct neckwear (wordplay)

That's right. Bonds and real estate

Prophecy

Forecasts

Sibyl oppress the unorthodox (wordplay)

Title for Anna Luke 236

Title for Anna: Luke 2:36

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

Propolis

The ayes

Advocates

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Propretor

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

Prorogate

Prosateur

Bans kid in tricky process

Outlaws supporting teachers of traditional law

Forbids

Prosector

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Proselyte

Prosimian

Bards

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

""Pl. prostheses (-s z) An artificial device used to replace a missing body part, such as a limb, tooth, eye, or heart valve.""

Pirate ship stores wooden leg perhaps

Product of an arms factory (wordplay)

Sister hops about on artificial leg, say

Shows subservience

Protamine

Bodyguards

Shields.

Lab staff (wordplay)

People holding signs, say

Walkout stagers

Protestor

""The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc. Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc.""

Protistan

Protoderm

Protonate

Protostar

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

Protozoan

Proustite

Provides cattle with food

Provirus

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Provolone

Prurience

Pruritus

Psalmbook

Psalmody

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Pseudopod

Psoriatic

Psychotic

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Pteridine

Pterosaur

Pterygium

Pterygoid

Publicise

Publicist

Publicize

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Puerilism

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

Pulverise

Pulverize

Punchball

Punctilio

Punctuate

Punditry

Pungency

Puniness

Pupillage

Those pulling the strings

Their jobs may have strings attached

Puppetry

Hound minorities (wordplay)

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

Arabian horses, for example

Pureness

Purgation

Purgative

Purloiner

Puromycin

Pursuance

Purulence

Carriers available for small charges

Carriers taking issue with egg on one sent into cleaners

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

Pustulant

Putschist

Puttyroot

Pyelitis

Pyrethrin

Pyrethrum

Pyridoxal

Pyrology

Pyrolyzer

Pyromania

Instruments measuring high temperatures.

Pyroxylin

Pacemaking

Leaders in their fields

Cutting-edge people

Leaders of the pack

Pacificism

Pacificist

Burdens for Grand Canyon mules

Packthread

Paddleball

Some are shaped like swans

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

Spectacular displays

Pagination

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

Palatalize

Natives of Germany.

Palimpsest

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

'The Walking Dead' (wordplay)

The Walking Dead (wordplay)

Some funeral attendees

Palletizer

Palliation

Palliative

Palmerworm

Palmistry

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Eulogists

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

Panjandrum

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Pantograph

Milquetoasts

Papaverine

Paperboard

Paperbound

Papermaker

Pl. papovaviruses Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that are associated with or cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Paraboloid

Drumming staples

The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Paralogism

Paramagnet

Paramecium

Paramnesia

Paranormal

Shortens a sentence, say

Waste not and want not

Expresses in different words.

Paraplegia

Paraplegic

Parasitise

Parasitism

Parasitize

Parasitoid

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parcenary

Parenchyma

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Parenthood

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

Parotitis

Parquetry

Parsimony

Potentially dangling verb forms

Information in a scriptural form

Carl and Rita up for a romp - suspect initially these might get taken down

Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Parturient

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Corridors with awkward gaps, as we say

Corridors, e.g

Corridors, for example

Showing no emotion

Frigid

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Passivity

Pasteboard

Pastellist

Applies heat treatment to generate true asepsis

Prevents fermentation

Pasticheur

Pastiness

Pastorship

Patchboard

Patchouly

Paternity